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Overview

Paraskevi Pitta is affiliated with the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Greece. Their work primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Oceanography and Ecology among other related subfields.

Their research encompasses several main topics including Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses.

Paraskevi Pitta has contributed to numerous publications, some of which include:

  • Towards quantitative metabarcoding of eukaryotic plankton: an approach to improve 18S rRNA gene copy number bias (2022) in Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
  • A Comparison of DNA Metabarcoding and Microscopy Methodologies for the Study of Aquatic Microbial Eukaryotes (2021) in Diversity
  • Coccolithophore community response to ocean acidification and warming in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: results from a mesocosm experiment (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • An IMTA in Greece: Co-Culture of Fish, Bivalves, and Holothurians (2022) in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Temporal Variability of Planktonic Ciliates in a Coastal Oligotrophic Environment: Mixotrophy, Size Classes and Vertical Distribution (2021) in Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Paraskevi Pitta has collaborated repeatedly with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Anastasia Tsiola, Manolis Tsapakis, Filomena Romano, Iordanis Magiopoulos, and Ioulia Santi.

Best Publications

  • Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean.

    T. F. Thingstad;M. D. Krom;R. F. C. Mantoura;R. F. C. Mantoura;G. A. F. Flaten

  • Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Urban Tillmann;John A. Raven

  • Natural vs. mariculture induced variability in nutrients and plankton in the eastern Mediterranean.

    Paraskevi Pitta;Ioannis Karakassis;Manolis Tsapakis;Snezana Zivanovic

  • Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now?

    Kevin J. Flynn;Aditee Mitra;Konstantinos Anestis;Anna A. Anschütz

  • Carbon flow in the planktonic food web along a gradient of oligotrophy in the Aegean Sea (Mediterranean Sea)

    I Siokou-Frangou;M Bianchi;U Christaki;E.D Christou

  • Response of East Mediterranean surface water to Saharan dust: On-board microcosm experiment and field observations

    Barak Herut;Tamar Zohary;M.D. Krom;R. Fauzi C. Mantoura

  • P-limited bacteria but N and P co-limited phytoplankton in the Eastern Mediterranean—a microcosm experiment

    Tamar Zohary;Barak Herut;Michael D. Krom;R. Fauzi C. Mantoura

  • Planktonic ciliates in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea: longitudinal trends of standing stocks, distributions and analysis of food vacuole contents

    Paraskevi Pitta;Antonia Giannakourou;Urania Christaki

  • Contribution of fish farming to the nutrient loading of the Mediterranean

    Ioannis Karakassis;Paraskevi Pitta;Michael D. Krom

  • 'Ghost nutrients' from fish farms are transferred up the food web by phytoplankton grazers

    Paraskevi Pitta;Manolis Tsapakis;Eugenia T. Apostolaki;Tatiana Tsagaraki

  • Lipid remodelling is a widespread strategy in marine heterotrophic bacteria upon phosphorus deficiency

    Marta Sebastián;Alastair F Smith;José M González;Helen F Fredricks

  • Towards quantitative metabarcoding of eukaryotic plankton: an approach to improve 18S rRNA gene copy number bias

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  • Planktonic ciliates in the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean : vertical, spatial distribution and mixotrophy

    Paraskevi Pitta;Antonia Giannakourou

  • Mesoscale changes in the water column in response to fish farming zones in three coastal areas in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

    P. Pitta;E.T. Apostolaki;M. Giannoulaki;I. Karakassis

  • Fish farming effects on chemical and microbial variables of the water column: a spatio-temporal study along the Mediterranean Sea

    P. Pitta;E. T. Apostolaki;T. Tsagaraki;M. Tsapakis

  • Diet of sardine Sardina pilchardus: an ‘end-to-end’ field study

    N. Nikolioudakis;S. Isari;P. Pitta;S. Somarakis

  • Summary and overview of the CYCLOPS P addition Lagrangian experiment in the Eastern Mediterranean

    M.D. Krom;T.F. Thingstad;S. Brenner;P. Carbo

  • Microbial community structure and function in the Levantine Basin of the eastern Mediterranean

    Tsuneo Tanaka;Tsuneo Tanaka;Tamar Zohary;Michael D. Krom;Cliff S. Law;Cliff S. Law

  • Microplastics increase the marine production of particulate forms of organic matter

    Luisa Galgani;Manolis Tsapakis;Paraskevi Pitta;Anastasia Tsiola

  • Oceanic protists with different forms of acquired phototrophy display contrasting biogeographies and abundance

    Suzanne Leles;Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Diane K. Stoecker

  • Electrochemical disinfection of simulated ballast water using Artemia salina as indicator

    Efi Tsolaki;Paraskevi Pitta;Evan Diamadopoulos

  • Effect of P and N addition to oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean waters influenced by near-shore waters: A microcosm experiment

    Nurit Kress;T. Frede Thingstad;Paraskevi Pitta;Stella Psarra

Frequent Co-Authors

Ioannis Karakassis
Ioannis Karakassis University of Crete
Manolis Tsapakis
Manolis Tsapakis University of Crete
Barak Herut
Barak Herut Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Frédéric Gazeau
Frédéric Gazeau Université Paris Cité
Michael D. Krom
Michael D. Krom University of Haifa
Tamar Zohary
Tamar Zohary Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Cécile Guieu
Cécile Guieu Université Paris Cité
Anastasios Tselepides
Anastasios Tselepides University of Piraeus
T. Frede Thingstad
T. Frede Thingstad University of Bergen

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